What Are Ideas About Today?
Posted on | September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
I have been talking a lot about TEDxDubai, we are down to the final 21 days before the we engage in the DREAM-DO-BE event.
Ideas are the most valuable commodity we have today and for the most part they are around us but being ignored.
Why are ideas ignored?
ARROGANCE, the belief that some people have a supernatural ability to see ideas and frame answers to global issuea around those ideas.
We all have ideas, see connections and have dreams, what we need is to be enabled.
TED and TEDx Dubai are really about 1 thing, giving you permission to enable your ideas and act on them.
There are no right, correct, best answers to anything happening around us. The role of our leaders and facilitators, one in the same today, is to provoke the asking of questions, the right questions, to provoke the generation of answers, yes that plural is intentional.
When we generate answers, many, we can then start to talk, debate and imagine where we need to be AND THEN ACT and FAST!
TEDxDubai is about asking and answering questions TOGETHER!
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September 23rd, 2009 @ 7:08 am
This is my first visit to your blog.
I like your question: “Why are ideas ignored?”
And I agree we need to be enabled. I see enabling as the core skill of educators and facilitators…
About arrogance… hmmmm…. surely that is one aspect, but, as you say, there are many answers to questions…